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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Fucken' objet a

Continuing from the last post, looking back to p. 91 of the OOO thread I mentioned Hegel After Derrida,and
how Derrida included but transcended Hegel's ontotheology. But with a
twist, an excess, remainder or displacement not accounted for in Hegel's
totalizing sublation, “an originary contamination of pure identity and
pure difference." We see this same process operating in Bryant's use of
Lacan. It's not so much that the male side of the graph is eliminated
but synthesized with the feminine side, which heretofore had been
marginalized. We still have the master narratives but allow for that
space or gap within them which withdraws. We allow for this “originary
contamination” of the present and absent, male and female, not as a
binary couple that are one in each or even one in all, but not two and
not one due to theobjet aor withdrawn core (khora).

Yes, Bryant's Borromean knot is an integral master narrative, so in that sense metaphysics. But itmultiplies
it with the excess remainders not in the type of ontotheologies of the
One stuck in the imbalance of the male side of sexuation, always grasping
for something it cannot ever achieve, always wanting more, as in the
capitalist mode of production. We need to go to the next level with P2P,
where we know when enough is enough, and how to spread the excess
around without hoarding it for ourselves. There we understand we cannot
ever arrive so we don't grasp as much and we give a lot more. We open
our hearts to that core emptiness that is always conterminous with
fullness, for in such giving there is always room for more giving. In
this way we progress, not through some pre-given ontotheological pattern
or Being, but through our own community enacted mores and ideals
integrated via the fucken' objet a.